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Huelva’s First 50 Years: A Timeline Taking in Luis Buñuel, Maria Félix, Cantinflas and Now Paz Vega
Huelva’s guests have included three Nobel Prize winners while it has awarded some of the biggest names in Latin American cinema.
1999: Huelva as a place of record: Chilean-Italian Marco Bechís wins the Golden Columbus for “Garage Olimpo,” an unyielding depiction of torture under Argentina’s military junta. 2018: “Miriam Miente,” an early Dominican arthouse movie, takes the Golden Columbus, establishing a Huelva-Dominican Republic connection, which flowers into a framework industry deal in 2022. 2023: Huelva’s top prize goes to Angeles Cruz’s “Valentina or the Serenity,” about a young Indigenous girl processing her father’s death, anticipating a rich vein of filmmaking in Latin America that has yet to build in most parts.
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